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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1950)
Thanksgiving, Turkey Sy As nonomous in State. Feast Draws Near By Mrs. Effle Maje White Statesman News Service FTJTJE CORNERS To the American way of life Thankaetv Ing and turkey are synonymous. The first Thanksfivinr was three eentnries ace In December, 1621. when Governor Bradford, then Governor of Massachusetts colony proclaimed a three day holiday of prayer and rejoicing to celebrate the first plentiful harvest after the Mayflower's arrival at Plymouth. The wild turkey of that region, tocether with other wild fame "hatred by the Pilgrim hunters furnished the meat course for that first Thanksgiving feast. Some where along the centuries naturalists rave the common wild American turkey the aristocratic sonnding name of "Meleag ris Gallopavo." This specie of turkey was abundant In all parts f the United States, Canada, and as far south as Mexico. - The Spanish conquerors of Mexico in the sixteenth century found a domesticated turkey there and sent some to the West Indies and Spain. Charles the ninth of France at his wedding banquet was the first kin to dine on turkey thereby setting a precedent that the turkey was food for kings and presidents. About 1525 they were Introduced into England and from there they were brought back to America by English colonists. Hence, our domesticated turkey traveled from its native habitat In Mexico to the British Isles via Europe and back to America. Science distinguishes only two species, the occellated turkey of Yucatan and our wild turkey. The governor of Massachusetts proclaimed the first Thanks giving day but tradition has kept it alive. On this truly American holiday relatives and friends gather for prayer and feasting. The American Indian and the wild turkey are closely con nected all through the pioneer history of the United States. Head dresses and other of their paraphernalia were decorated with the wing and tail feathers of the prised bird while the meat was much desired. To the adventurous and' daring pioneers who were ever conscious of the call of the west, the wild turkey, together with ether wild game, often furnished an otherwise meatless meal and sometimes It was the complete meaL Today the wild turkey is extinct In many states, his clarion "gobble in the early dawn lost to civilization and superceded by the domesticated turkey. The turkey industry ranks eleventh In Oregon with an estimated cash income to the growers of $10,000,000. In 1945 there were an estimated 1,770,000 turkeys - raised In Oregon and as of August 24, 1950, the amuaber of birds total around 1.628,000. Turkey steaks, the twentieth century edition of the wild turkey rolled in elay and roasted feathers, et cetera, by the early .pioneers and Indians of the sixteenth century. No roasted bird . ever tasted like the culinary wrinkle" of preparing turkey steaks. . To the gourmet they are an epicurean delight; to the hungry they are a mouth watering delicacy and to the tired and hurried house wives they are an answer to prayer for time saving. - No longer is the turkey saved Just for Thanksgiving but with modern refrigeration and the flocks of turkeys from a few hundred to many thousands they are marketed and available all through the year. Once considered food only for kings and poten tates, it is .now within reach of the housewife doing her daily shopping or in a can shipped to the battle front to bring a touch of home to our incomparable fighting GIs. Mothers Group Makes Plans At East Salem Statesman News Service . EAST SALEM Washington school Mothers club met at the school Thursday. In the absence of all officers Mrs, Warren Clark I presided at the tmsiness meeting, and ' Mrs. H albert Kemper acted as secretary. - Appointments made were Mrs. Garrit Van Hess, chairman of the committee assisting with school clinics; Mrs. Irvin Larson will : serve as chairman of the room ; mothers and Mrs. Lewis Johnson win be a new leader of a blue bird group.. There were two subjects for general discussion: one the ef forts to be made to have a side walk placed along Lansing ave nue from Sunnyview to the school house and one of the social ac tivities the dub will sponsor. Project chairman, Mrs. L G. Lermon presented for considera tion the purchasing of a public address system for the school, which would be a two-year proj : ect . . .. . For the preogram Dr. A. Wes ton Nielela, special education di rector of the Salem schools spoke on the tests given children to de termine their progress in their school lessons. .. SUverton WMF Plans Project SUtesaua News Service SILVERTON At th Thurs day meeting of the Women's Mis sionary Federation of Tmmannol church, chief order of business was the appointment of commit tees, with Mrs. John Overlund in charge. The nominating commit tee was ine omy one whose mem Dersnip was elected. , . A committee to write letters to shut-ins and to service men will be composed of Mrs. Ed Zitzwitz; Mrs. Elser Aarhus, Mrs. E. Saa berg and Mrs. M. N. Koelln; greet ing committee at church functions, Mrs. H. B. Jorgenson, Mrs. Ed Overhand, Mrs. B. E. Gaffey, Mrs. Harold Satern and Miss Hannah Olson; nominating committee, Mrs. H. B. Jorgenson, Mrs. Stanley Swanseon. Mrs. R Poverud. Mrs. Harold Satern, Mrs. Marvin Fahl and Mrs. Conrad Johnson. Plans were also made, for the collection of articles to be used by four displaced persons expected to arrive soon. These are being sponsored by the WMF with the endorsement of the church body. Money was also voted 'for the Parkland Children's home, the Seaman's Mission in San Francisco and a native missionary in Africa. The next meeting of the WMF will be December 21, a night meet ing at the church social rooms. Thanksgiving Services Planned at Lebanon St&tesm&a News Service LEBANON Union Thanksgiv ing day" church services will be conducted at 10 a. m. Thanks giving in the" First Baptist church, v - v The Rev. Henry I. Brown, pas tor of the Church of the Nazarene and president of the Lebanon ministerial association, will de liver the morning address. The one hour service is being sponsored . by the Protestant churches affiliated with the min isterial association. 4-H Clubs Organized At Sunnyside School Itatesmaa News Service SUNNYSIDE Four 4-H groups have been organized at Sunnyside school this falL Mrs. May Brown, Sunnyside teacher, is leader of the health group. Richard. Grim Is president and Barbara Graham secretary. The woodworking club is led by Clarence Poole with 'William Reed as president and Jimmy Thorton secretary. Mrs. G. Tarnansky Is leader of THE VALLEY NEWS COLUMNS r w From The Oregon Statesman's Valley Correspondents ssM ;f" 'M jX. '"- , s j- - f J 1 ,n a i - ....... art) ,vt V." -I , . rZ av At-. : Fr Y v--" Thw Stcrtecnan, Solera, Owu Tuesday, Nortmbf 21, USO Lebanon Paper Mill Believed Near Solution to Pollution ' Of River; Pilot Plant Ready V ' V A. MEHAMA Some ef the 109 persons who Jammed the Mehama Woman's clubhouse, recently for the Ladles Aid society's ' bazaar and dinner are shown partaking of the ham dinner served. Others In the background are fishlnc In the fishpond and playinr the various games offered during the event Funds derived will go to imtnfriq the community church. (Statesman-Eobert Yeness photo). Volley Qriefo Statesman News Service WEST STAYTONr-Residents of the community have been in vited to attend the Thanksgiving day program to be given by West Stayton school students Wednes day, November 22, at 1:30 p. m. KE1ZER Keizer's Garden club will meet Tuesday, November 21, at 8 p. m. in the fire hall for a business session and program. S. E. Ward, Salem flower grower, will speak on fuchsias. DALLAS Al Paget, African missionary home on furlough, will be guest speaker at the Dallas Christian church Sunday, Decem ber 3, during the morning serv ice. Mrs. Ross J. Griffeth, wife of the president of Northwest Chris tian college, will be women's day speaker December 10. DALLAS Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hayter will observe their 62nd wedding anniversary Tuesday, November 21, Hayter, ill for sev eral veeks recently, returned home from the hospital last week. GATES Mrs. Joseph Joaquin, who underwent surgery in Salem Memorial hospital Tuesday, is re ported improving satisfactorily. ; SWEGLE All parents are ur ged to attend a meeting of the Swegle Parent-Teachers associa tion at the school Tuesday, No vember 21. The executive com mittee will meet at 7 p. m and a health program will be presented at 8 p. m. Several important issues will be decided during the busin ess meeting. North Marion -Has Program HUBBARD Future Homemak- ers of America at North Marion union high school completed a full weeks activities in observance of FHA week with a "Teacher's Tea," Friday afternoon. Oa Monday the girls listened to speaker on "Careers in Home Economics; Tuesday was Hobby Day, Wednesday was photography day and a demonstration by rep resentatives of- the Singer com pany on use of sewing machine at tachments; Thursday, Mrs. Deich- er, state FHA representative, talk ed on activities of the organiza tion and planning their program for the year; Thursday evening the North Marion FHA entertain ed the Canby FHA with a no host banquet. the combined sewing and cooking groups. Bessie Kline is president and Kathleen Tarnansky secretary of the sewing group. Kathleen Tarnansky is president of the cook ing group and Marian Graham secretary. jYI Is bo it for (mm mmj f RIINDIT NATION-WIDE SIIVICI Depet - y V JT M m : m .tAlMI KUAMT NADINI CONNU f g Ji A JZ f ft f "m Opeoefcedtp f . f "" '"w'-,wiaiHj.i;iria i i ii Hi " ' fc Tr V ! r4 .NANITTI FABtAT . Ml STEIN Farm Classes Will Commence Itatesman News Serrlce ALBANY November -21 has been set as the date for the first meeting in the series of adult class es of farm management, and will be held in the Santiam Central Farmers Union hall near Cotton woods, starting at 8 p.m. At this first meeting in the ser ies, which has been organized at the request of the Farmers Union and the Grange, a movie on soil conservation will be shown. All farmers and their wives, as well as any others who are interested, are invited to attend these meet ings. E. H. Foreman, Albany high school instructor, states the meet ings are being sponsored by the Albany high school in cooperation with the Union and Grange. SCOUTS REACTIVATED SILVERTON Explorer post 88, Boy Scouts, has been reactivated with John Schwabe as advisor and Lowell Brown as committee chair man. A meeting for organization was held Monday night at the Methodist church. Draft Leaves I Dallas,with MD Shortage Statesman News Serrlce DALLAS Dr. J. M. Camp bell, Dallas physician, left Monday for Bremerton, Wash to report for active duty with the navy, leaving Dallas with only five physicians. - I Campbell , is the third Dallas doctor to report for military duty dnrinff the past year. Dr. Don White and Dr. C. E. Gibbs left earlier this year. Dr. Campbell came to Dallas about IS months ago after serv ing with the navy during and after World War DL. He plans to resume practice In Dallas when he Is discharged front the service. Statesman New Service LEBANON The paper mills of Oregon and Washington are "on thej spot since they must stop dumping sulphite waste materials into rivers and streams by May 1, 1952, Herb Wymore, manager of the Crown Zellerbach corporation re vealed this week. Since all 31 northwest paper mills use a sulphite pulping pro cess, the order issued by the sani tation authorities of both states would sHut down the industry completely for substantial portions of the year. However, he said. Crown Zeller bach is conducting experiments with a full sized pilot plant in Lebanon which they hope will eliminate the necessity of dumping such waste into the streams. Million Dollar Industry Wymore stressed (he importance of paper to the northwest's econ omy saying 25,000 employes draw 170,000,000 in wages annually in addition to $40,000,000 worth of logs and $210,000,000 of raw ma terials purchased by the industry. In order for Oregon and Washing ton to keep this industry some new process must be devised and placed into operation within a year and a half. Crown Zellerbach thinks It has found the answer by using an am monia and sulfur base for their cooking rather than bisulphite of caicium. calcium compounds can neither be burned nor dissolved, said Wymore, and thus be just sluffed off. The Lebanon plant pours nearly a million gallons of waste material into the Santiam river each day, he stated. Ammonium compounds however are soluble, may be evaporated or burned. In fact, continued Wy-1 more, the pilot plant under con-1 srrucuon at Lebanon will burn much of the waste after concent rating it by evaporation to pro duce steam which is so essential to the .papermaking process. Also much of the sulfur may be re claimed and re-used. Pilot Plant Ready The pilot plant' which Crown Zellerbach officials hape to have in full operation in six weeks is not a small model but full sized industrial equipment. Only one tenth of the present waste liquor will be treated in the pilot study, and If detailed and thorough tests indicate- the process will work, more equipment will be added to treat the entire output. Wymore stated that the word "pollution" is frowned upon in pa per circles since the waste dumped into the rivers is as sterile as a physician's scapel and in itself perfectly harmless. However the chemicals have a great affinity for oxygen, and if the concentration is too great there is no oxygen 4-H Clubs to r Be Organized At Auburn in News Service AUBURN For the first time several years Auburn school children will have 4-H clubs, i At the meeting of the Mothers club Thursday night, definite plans were made for three clubs and perhaps more. Mrs. George Starr will lead the 4-H rabbit club; Mrs. Lloyd Mass a sewing group and Harrold Bressler a class for boys in woodwork. The first plans for the club's Christmas treat for the school children was made and Christmas program is planned. The room of j Mrs. Velma Laverty was given the record at the award for the latgest percentage of mothers present at the meeting. For the social hour refreshments were served by Mrs. C. C. Durkee, Mrs. Cornelius Feskins and "Mrs. Loran .Richey. From 2,000 to 3000 silkworm cocoons are required to make a pound of silk. left for fish. And fish play a largo part in attracting "tourists,' Ore' gon's third largest industry. Wy more feels that the people of Ore gon are entirely justified in forc ing the paper mills to help clean up Oregon's streams. Producing, pulp with an am-' monium base is nothing new, 'con tinued Wymore, and has been in the textbooks for some time.' Two : mills in the United States and ono in Sweden use variations of the process. Nevertheless, he conclud ed, worldwide attention is being focused on Lebanon which might point the way to better, cheaper and more healthful paper manufacturing. With this PIN ! you can ; II EAR ! a pin drop! i . . .'It's the new movable microphone of the new' SONOTONE, and looks -like lovely Jeweled .brooch. No dangling oat-' - aide cords! No muffling clothes-rob noise. . setitTC:AY!CrV,T.inr::J SONOTONE j IV. F. DODGE Certified Sonotono Consultant '' will be at SONOTONE HEARING CENTEX HOTEL SENATOR Salem. Oregon Wednesday, November M a. m. to 7 n. m. 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